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Abstract A vital element of the European Union (EU) political system is the idea of further European integration. Whilst most existing works investigate the effects of the Cohesion Policy (CP), only a handful of studies consider the effects of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on citizens' support for European integration.
Nikola Radojičić
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The Economic Activity in Lisbon. Structural axis and squares [PDF]
The simplifying assumption that the Central Business District is a point or featureless plain, is often made in urban economics. The main goal of this paper is to promote the relaxation of this hypothesis, with the support of empirical evidence ...
Nuno Caleia Rodrigues
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Abstract Firms are known to commonly imitate peers' foreign investment location choices. We shed further light on this phenomenon by exploring the role of foreign locations' cultural tightness, which refers to the prevalence of social norms in a location and the tolerance for deviance from them.
Arjen H. L. Slangen+3 more
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Rural-Urban Migration and the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth [PDF]
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/24/08.Overlapping Generations Model, Rural-Urban Migration, Poverty Traps, Agglomeration Economies, Place-based Policies, Person-based Policies, Consumer/Household Economics, Labor and Human Capital, R13, R58 ...
Enver, Ayesha, Partridge, Mark D.
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Urban planning in a context of rapid urban growth. A large scale review of urban plans in Africa [PDF]
As the African continent continues to urbanise, cities are becoming increasingly central to the transformations of societies and economies. Many studies highlight the limits of urban planning in these cities, emphasising the high share of population living in slums and the low levels of services that reach neighbourhoods. Less attention is given to the
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Agglomeration Index: Towards a New Measure of Urban Concentration
Hirotsugu Uchida, Andrew Nelson
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Urbanization and administrative restructuring: A case study on the Wuhan urban agglomeration [PDF]
Chen Zeng, Zhang An-lu, Shan Xu
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ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to exploit an innovative spatial econometric approach to map and study the evolving patterns of industrial districts (IDs). The procedure can be classified as a k‐means cluster‐wise regression procedure and is designed to detect homogeneous areas of subcontracting activity.
Jacopo Canello+3 more
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Geographic concentration and firm survival [PDF]
If localization economies are present, firms within denser industry concentrations should exhibit higher levels of performance than more isolated firms. Nevertheless, research in industrial organization that has focused on the influences on firm survival
De Silva, Dakshina G., McComb, Robert P.
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